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While Honoria Eversleigh was living under a false name in Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road, the man who called himself her father, established himself in a little river-side public-house, under the shadow of Raynham Castle. The house in question had never borne too good a character; and its reputation was in nowise improved when, on the death of its owner, it passed into the custody of Mr.
Certainly she smiled a little at the bare idea Kit Raynham was not destined to be the man! He was clever, and enthusiastic, and adoring, and she liked him quite a lot, but his hot-headed passion failed to waken in her breast the least spark of responsive emotion. Her thoughts drifted idly backward, recalling this or that man who had wanted her.
"What do you mean by 'a piece of acting'?" "That outburst of grief which my lady indulged in, when she found herself mistress of Raynham." "I believe that it was genuine," answered Mr. Dale, gravely. "Oh, you think the inheritance a fitting subject for lamentation?" "No, Reginald.
Very little more was said, and half an hour after this interview, the police-officer left Raynham in a post-chaise, on the first stage of the journey to Murford Haven. Words are too weak to describe the sufferings of the mother of the lost child, and of the friends to whom she was hardly less dear.
Berry, were toiling to deck the day at hand, Raynham and Belthorpe slept, the former soundly; and one day was as another to them. They were certainly rather monotonous and spiritless. The baronet did not complain. That cold dutiful tone assured him there was no internal trouble or distraction. "The letters of a healthful physique!" he said to Lady Blandish, with sure insight.
By a measurement of dates he discovered that the bridegroom had brought his bride to the house on the day he had quitted Raynham, and this was enough to satisfy Adrian's mind that there had been concoction and chicanery. Chance, probably, had brought him to the old woman: chance certainly had not brought him to the young one.
The beginning of June now arrived, and brought with it the time for the return of Claude and Lord Rotherwood. The Marquis's carriage met him at Raynham, and he set down Claude at New Court, on his way to Hetherington, just coming in to exchange a hurried greeting with the young ladies. Their attention was principally taken up by their brother. 'Claude, how well you look!
She entered the arched gateway of Raynham Castle; and, as she looked out of the carriage window, she saw the big black letters, printed on a white broadside, offering a reward of three hundred pounds for the early restoration of the missing child. Mr. Larkspur gave a scornful sniff as he perceived this bill. "That won't bring her back," he muttered.
The trial had been a very bitter one; but at length, arousing himself from that gloomy reverie, he said aloud, "Thank Heaven it is over; my resolution did not break down, and the link is broken." Sir Oswald had made his arrangements for leaving London that afternoon, on the first stage of his journey to Raynham Castle.
The little girl, Gertrude, so named after the mother of the late baronet, remained at Raynham under the care of two persons. These two guardians were Captain Copplestone, and a widow lady of forty years of age, Mrs. Morden, a person of unblemished integrity, who had been selected as protectress and governess of the young heiress. The child was at this time two and a half years of age.
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